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Issue: Vol. 4317 No. 2: 4 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.2.11
Page range: 370–378
Abstract views: 73
PDF downloaded: 4

A review of Euryobeidia Fletcher, 1979 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae), with description of three new species

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China School of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Hubei, China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Lepidoptera taxonomy morphology Euryobeidia new species

Abstract

The genus Euryobeidia Fletcher, 1979 is reviewed. Five species from China are recognized, of which, E. ellipsoidea sp. nov., E. incrassata sp. nov. and E. quadrata sp. nov. are described as new to science. Diagnoses for all the species are provided and illustrations of external features and genitalia are presented.

 

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